Photon Engineering, LLC is the creator and distributor of FRED Optimum, the premier, proven optical and illumination engineering software. We also provide engineering services, custom software solutions, introductory and advanced tutorials and short courses on stray light and illumination. Download version 9.70's feature list here.

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Photon Engineering's optical consultants offer optics professionals comprehensive and leading-edge optical engineering services from concept to manufacture.

Our optical experts teach you how to visualize your optical problems and solve them using our optical solutions. Photon Engineering tutorials help you learn every aspect of FRED. Photon Engineering now offers customized optical engineering training at your site, please call us for more information.

Need scripting help, tutorials, or FRED technical support? Visit our Bulletin Board System/Knowledge Base.

Please watch our most recent webinar on Object Maker, a FRED tool enabling rapid construction of some standard geometric forms.  This webinar also discusses how to use the scripting language as a way to perform customized tasks.

Photon News

• New Release
  Photon Engineering is proud to announce the latest release of FRED, version 9.70. 

  Read our New Features Document for a description of the exciting new changes to FRED!

• Illumination Short Course
  In co-operation with LASER2000 Benelux and Photon Engineering (U.S.), we are proud to announce this unique 3-day Illumination Engineering course which will be held on November 8 to 10 at the Novotel Eindhoven. You can find out more about this exciting course at the Netherlands Photonics Cluster website.



• Career Opportunities
  Photon Engineering is interested in talking to highly qualified individuals, click here to be redirected to our employment page.



• New Courses Photon Engineering now offers Stray Light and Illumination Engineering short courses, as well as an Advanced FRED tutorial on “Coherence in Optical Engineering”. Download a recording of our recent "Stray Light webinar", the "Illumination Engineering webinar, or the "Coherence in Optical Engineering webinar". You may need the Go To Meeting Codec to view these snippets, get it here.
  
  Read the detailed report on how FRED was used to do a stray light and ghost image analysis by NOAO on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope here.
• FRED and SolidWorks
  Photon Engineering is a SolidWorks Solution Partner. To learn more about Solidworks and FRED go to SolidWorks' partners page.